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News: October/November 2000

Dialogue impossible • Philosopher in identity scam • Last chance for lost souls • Indian philosophers celebrate jubilee

Philosopher Flees ETA

After an escalation in ETA violence in which thirteen people, including four rebel activists have been killed since December last year, Mikel Azurmendi, professor of philosophy at San Sebastian University will be leaving Spain to undertake a year’s research in the USA. Although it is nearly 30 years since Azurmendi left the militant Basque separatist group, he feels that he has become an ETA target because he is not a nationalist. Even within his own faculty at the University he clearly feels under threat. Incidents which include finding the word ‘killer’ on his office door and a large target bearing his name on the faculty office wall have culminated in a parcel bomb which was defused close to his home recently.

Professor Azurmendi states that he has always believed in dialogue rather than violence.

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